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HOWARD COOK Towers.
Etching, 1928. 174x125 mm; 6 7/8x5 inches, full margins. Edition of 50. Signed, titled, and inscribed "imp." and "1929" in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression of this scarce etching.
Cook (1901-1980), most widely known for his lyrical prints of Manhattan, was born in Massachusetts and traveled the continental United States extensively. As a young man, he moved to New York and enrolled in the Art Students League. He studied printmaking there under Joseph Pennell (1857-1926) who, nearing the end of his life, was characterized by his atmospheric cityscape etchings. Cook's interest in the medium increased after a trip to Paris in 1925, where he spent time with fellow ex-patriots and master printmakers James E. Allen (1894-1964) and Thomas Handforth (1897-1948).
